Is It Time to Rethink Human-Centered Design?
For years, human-centered design has been the gold standard in the design world—a philosophy that urges us to put people first, to…
From Wireframes to Prototypes: Why Designers Need to Grow Up
Wireframes once ruled the UX kingdom. They were the designer’s armor — grayscale, boxy, safe. They reassured clients, gave developers…
Why Web Design Must Finally Break Free from Its Graphic Design Roots
Web design has always been haunted by its graphic design roots. In the early days, we didn’t know what we were…
Ethical Defaults: Why Designers Must Stop Hiding Behind Settings
Let’s cut to the chase: if your product requires users to dig through labyrinthine settings just to stop you from…
The Curious Tale Behind “The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog”
At first glance, it looks like the start of a quirky children’s book or a line from a failed Dr….
Enshittification by Design: Why Every Interface Turns Against You
Every great product starts like a love story. You fall for it fast. It’s clean. It’s simple. It just gets you….
Exciting New Tools for Designers, November 2025
While new design projects might not be on the top of your mind heading into the holiday season and end…
Brutalism in the AI Era: Why Ugly Might Be the Only Honest Aesthetic Left
The web is drowning in beauty. Or at least, what passes for beauty these days — polished gradients, 8px border…
Dark Mode Is the New Comic Sans (And You Know It)
Somewhere along the way, dark mode stopped being a thoughtful accessibility option and became a design religion. In fact our obsession…
Evergreen Web Design Is a Lie (But Maybe That’s Okay)
Once upon a time, in the golden age of blogrolls and PSD mockups, web designers whispered of a magical concept: evergreen…
The Layered Aesthetic: Depth, Complexity, and Chaos Done Right
There’s a quiet revolution happening in design, and it’s not about minimalism’s clean white spaces or maximalism’s riot of color….
Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2025
So many exciting new tools for designers this month! From AI help to UI tools to collaboration tools that make…
Is It Time to Kill the Sidebar?
Once upon a time, the sidebar was king. It wore a crown made of navigation links, tag clouds, RSS icons,…
The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why?
Let’s be honest: the designer-developer handoff was never really “working”—at best, it limped along with annotated PDFs and passive-aggressive Figma comments….
Intent-Based UI Is Replacing Navigation—Are We Designing Ourselves Out of the Interface?
We spent decades perfecting the art of navigation: breadcrumbs, sidebars, hamburger menus, sticky headers, site maps. We crafted taxonomies and…
Dear Designers: Stop Using System Fonts Like It’s 2005
Remember system fonts? Good old Times New Roman, trusty Arial, and the unkillable Courier New. Fonts so baked into operating…
Designing for Dribbble Killed Real Web Creativity
It started with a shot. Not a launch. Not a live site. Not even a prototype. Just a shot — a single,…
What Is Web Design in 2025?
Let’s start with a gentle truth: web design in 2025 no longer means what it used to. And that’s okay. Once,…